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Both argue bitterly over dinner and drinks afterwards. Diner No. 1 sips sparkling water with lime, the other drinks 100-year-old scotch while the restaurant owner and his wait staff pace the floor awaiting one party

or the other to pick up the check, pay and go home.

Neither party makes a move. Both wait till the very last minute before the Capitol Police arrive. Party No. 1 offers to pay half; Party No. 2 refuses to pay a dime. And just before the handcuffs come out, guess who settles in full while the other leaves a miserly dollar tip?

The debt ceiling vote in Congress speaks loud and clear which party cares about this huge â&#x20AC;&#x153;restaurant,â&#x20AC;? its current â&#x20AC;&#x153;ownerâ&#x20AC;? and all its hardworking staff.

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Posts, Aug. 3) re: finding a Republican who is embarrassed by their partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;guiding philosophy,â&#x20AC;? you can count the two of us.

However, we are equally disgusted and embarrassed by the Democratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shenanigans and finger-pointing, and think all members of both parties in Congress should be hung out to dry so we can start over.

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Many Republican and conservative voters across the country are dissatisfied by their partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions or non-actions. However, those who live in glass houses shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t throw stones. Democrats have a president in office that they voted for and held a majority in both the House and Senate for two years, and yet Mr. Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approval rating is nothing to be proud of and Congress has hit an all-time low with, I believe, 82 percent of people polled not approving.

Maybe Democratic voters should look to their elected officials rather than blaming Congress for all the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems.

Just a thought from a Republican voter who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t vote for 99 percent of the Republicans holding office these days.

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ON A FOGGY August morning at Baileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Branciforte Ridge vineyard, Jeff Emery gently holds a cluster of pulverized grapes in his palm. They look like a miniature unripe version of the picked-over batch that sat in the refrigerator for too long: some of the berries are large, some are the size of BBs and others are barely visible.

Emery started working at Santa Cruz Mountain Winery in 1979 and bought it in 2004. During these last few years he has seen some of the coolest summers of his career, and some of the hottest ones, tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sometimes in the same year. During 2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer growing season, the temperature went from the mid-70s to over 100 degrees within a few days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It fried everything,â&#x20AC;? says Emery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The grapes went from berries to raisins overnight.â&#x20AC;?

This year, vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains are coping with the fallout from late rains that shattered a portion of the crops

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(meaning no seed set inside the fruit, negating the need to grow and resulting in BB-sized berries). Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also negotiating cooler-than-average summer temperatures. And while statistics suggest nothing out of the ordinaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;NOAA Meteorological Technician Steven Anderson says the average summer temperature in the Monterey Bay area since 1894 has been 72 degrees, and this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average has so far been 70 degreesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the growers tell another story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For those in agriculture, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take much to shift everything,â&#x20AC;? says Emery. Coupled with the lost crops from late rains, the cool weather has made what Emery calls a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big mess.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This weather is killer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible,â&#x20AC;? he says, standing in weeds that have grown up over a foot around the vineyard due to the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surplus moisture. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also facing a reduced yield. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of getting a big cluster of fruit, a lot of berries are missing,â&#x20AC;? says Emery.

Consultant Rick Anzalone, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked with vineyards in Santa Clara

and San Mateo counties, blames the cold spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When spring weather is warmer, the earlier flowering tends to make a longer growing season,â&#x20AC;? says Anzalone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The vines flowered relatively late.â&#x20AC;?

Although each growing site is affected differently depending on geography and management, Emery says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling the shortage of pinot noir grapes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m already hitting short supply with the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;09 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;10,â&#x20AC;? says Emery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It becomes an economic issue of not having enough supply.â&#x20AC;?

With some exceptions, yields are down 30 percent for all varietals except chardonnay, says viticulture consultant Prudy Foxx. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an average across the board. There are some who have no yield problem at all, there are others who lost everything. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit-and-miss based on location and what weather they had at bloom,â&#x20AC;? says Foxx.

The moisture has turned the cropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s canopies into a jungle in some cases.

In the vineyard next door to Baileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Branciforte Ridge, vines reaching for the sky shake as workers wrestle them into submission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can almost hear them at night,â&#x20AC;? says Anzalone.

Foxx has witnessed similar overgrowth in many of the vineyards she manages in Santa Cruz. When doing â&#x20AC;&#x153;canopy management,â&#x20AC;? or trimming overgrowth, the weatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mood swings are something to fear; in cold weather a grower can trim the leaves to give the grapes more sunlight, only to have all their exposed fruit zapped by hot weather the next day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a delicate balance,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve trained crews that know how to do it, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expensive.â&#x20AC;?

The increased moisture that causes growth also creates mildew problems, which many growers combat with chemicals.

Even though growers are craving more sunlight to ripen their grapes, Emery thinks this year is not entirely bad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m old school. Wine should not be 16 percent alcohol and taste like jam,â&#x20AC;? he says firmly of the hot weather that can produce super-sweet fruit.

Anzalone, the vineyard manager, does get frustrated at times. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then you walk up and have a glass of wine and think about why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it,â&#x20AC;? says Anzalone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of the farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job is to adapt to the weather and utilize it.â&#x20AC;?

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Harsh and Harsher Fourteen years ago B^X]VZa AjXVh took a fall from the Aptos Bridge. It left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe. Since then, Lucas has been cared for by his mother, Sylvia. In exchange for caring for a citizen who cannot care for himself, she earns $11.50 an hour from the government through >c =dbZ Hjeedgi^kZ HZgk^XZh d[ HVciV 8gjo 8djcin. That hourly wage, along with that of nearly 2,000 other in-home care workers in the county, is set to be cut by 10 percent by the county Board of Supervisors.

Santa Cruz Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract with HZgk^XZ :beadnZZh >ciZgcVi^dcVa, the union that represents long-term care workers like Hnak^V AjXVh, expired in September of last year. Since then, the union has been locked in negotiations with the county over the proposed cut.

At the Aug. 2 meeting of the HVciV 8gjo 8djcin 7dVgY d[ HjeZgk^hdgh, Lucas read from a letter he wrote to the supervisors. He said the cuts in wages would have a drastic impact on his family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We may be forced to move from

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a county where I was born and have lived my entire 43 years,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please [take] me and others like me into consideration before making a drastic cut to a program that is barely keeping folks like my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; heads above water.â&#x20AC;?

The problem stems from the fact that IHSC is funded through a combination of state, local and federal funds; the portions that the state and federal governments contribute have shrunk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a matter of money,â&#x20AC;? says board of supes chairman BVg` HidcZ# â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been negotiating with [SEIU] as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been negotiating with all the bargaining units that we have.â&#x20AC;?

If the 10 percent cut that the board is proposing goes through, in-home care workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wages would be reduced to $10.35 an hourâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;low for Santa Cruz County, but still higher than the wage earned by inhome care workers in other parts of the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe that an $11.50 wage is a fair wage,â&#x20AC;? says :g^` AVghZc, SEIU organizer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not asking for an increase, although the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s living wage ordinance for nonbenefited employees is $15 an hour. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they pay landscapers and security guards.â&#x20AC;? He adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our folks canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go anywhere else. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already making poverty wages.â&#x20AC;?

Lucas was the first of a crush of speakers who wished to give public comment on the proposed cut at the first supervisorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meeting following a month-long recess. 9Vc Da^kZg^, chaplain at Resurrection Catholic Church in Aptos, also presented the board with a 400-signature petition asking supervisors to reconsider the decision.

Larsen says the county walked away from union negotiations on July 27. There is no date set for a final vote on the issue.

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ONE MIGHT expect the auth author of a book that opens pens with an ax-wielding, ax i lding, corpse-smoking corpse-smo corpse-sm necrophiliac to o be out back in the woods, oods, gnawing on animal bones after a self-mutilation ion and meth methamphetamine binge. Instead Instead, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re greeted ted by a grandfatherly, grand mildmannered ret retired professor or in tortoise-shell tortoise tortoiseglasses and sandals w who comes off much youn younger than his 655 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comp â&#x20AC;&#x153;Compared to what I write, m my life has been surprisingly prisingly conventional,â&#x20AC;? Rudy Rucke Rucker Ru confesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ve never really gone off the de deep en end,â&#x20AC;? he says, even though he writes about drug-addled drug-ad characters such as cha Skeeves, who Sk h sleeps l with i h sarcophagi h i in i a van on the cliffs between Santa Cruz and Davenport. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother him that he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lived that life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I lived in a van, it would be

hard to have an office where I can write.â&#x20AC;?

Rucker ushers us through a living room of oak floors and oriental rugs, past a neatly arranged shelving unit of LP records and CDs (Zappa, Big Star, the Pretenders and the Pixies appear to have been played recently) and an equally organized floor-to-ceiling bookshelf with an entire row of Beat and Beat-influenced literatureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kerouac, Ginsberg, Carver, Burroughs, Bukowskiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at eye level. Higher brow stuff â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nabokov, Kafka, Pynchonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are on the top shelves, and the large format art booksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heavily weighted towards Picasso, Dali, Hockney, Van Gogh and the Flemish renaissance painter Pieter Bruegelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are stacked horizontally at the bottom. ¨

â&#x20AC;&#x2122;M JIM OSTER. I grew up in Sunnyvale, a knot of freeways near San Jose, California.

My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother sold online ads. Dad was what you might call piebald, with different colors in his hair. He stared off into the distance a lot, always thinking about his projects. Mom had warm eyes, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d smile and nod when she happened to look my way. But she spent most of her time staring down at her little phoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screen.

During my senior year in high school, I used to play hooky and go surfing in Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was only a half-hourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive away. In the morning, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d stuff my wetsuit into my backpackâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;instead of carrying books.

My parents didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice, and if they had they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have cared. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had their one child, me, and by now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d turned to other concerns: their jobs and their investments. My grades werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a big issue, as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d already been accepted for admission at the University of California.

My favorite surf break was off a rocky point at Four Mile Beach, on Route 1 north of Cruz. My friend Chang would drive us over there.

Chang wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t into studying at all, he was planning to be a pro surfer, and he figured his day job could be dealing pot. He had a vintage blue Haut board with an epic feel. I was more of a short-boarder, working snappy moves up and down the tubesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wiped out and floundering in the foam.

Some the locals at Four Mile had taken to hassling us. A spaced-out raw-boned guy called Skeeves was on my case in particular. He was a little older than the rest of us. All he did was surf, and he lived in his van. ¨

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The penchant for organization and categorization contrasts with Ruckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious bias towards artists, writers and musicians who fled strictures and conventions. His sense of making order of the world, though, seems at harmony with a man whose Ph.D. specialty was mathematical logic and who spent two decades teaching computer science to engineering students at San Jose State University.

Another paradox: the digital era icon, a pioneer of cyberpunk alongside William Gibson, John Shirley and Lewis Shiner, lives a largely analog existence. An old thermostat hangs from the wall. He wears a sweep hand watch and plays vinyl on a turntable, which he runs through a preamp and his computerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound card using a free software program to load old songs onto his iPod. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got through 30 albums before I lost my momentum,â&#x20AC;? he says of the retirement project.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The scratches are sort of good,â&#x20AC;? he says of the digitized vinyl recordings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They give it an impasto quality,â&#x20AC;?

Rucker muses, using the Italian term for the painting technique to build up layers of paint, a process that he has experimented with in the past few years. He motions towards one of the colorful, cartoony paintings that fill the walls of his writing room, pointing to one done several years ago that was flat on the canvas.

Newer ones have relief ridges and texture from the layered paint.

Sitting in an Aeron chair, a 5x7 photograph of him with two granddaughters in a bathtub next to his portrait-oriented computer monitor, Rucker explains that he likes to paint the worlds he writes about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I often paint before I write to get some images,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After I write I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get as motivated. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen it.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been there.â&#x20AC;?

11 the sides and combed forward in front implant his persona into the paradigm-shifting, slang-tossing Santa Cruz surfer-stoner dude? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a 27-year-old surfer,â&#x20AC;? Rucker admits.

He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even surf, though he tried to when he moved to California 25 years ago. He found it â&#x20AC;&#x153;harder than I thought it would be,â&#x20AC;? especially the part that involved paddling out to the waves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get out there, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exhausted.â&#x20AC;?

Later, when he indulges our request to pose with the barely-used surf board he bought when he moved to California 25 years ago, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is just totally bogus.â&#x20AC;? He laughs and continues the shoot like a good sport.

Having set his sights on writing â&#x20AC;&#x153;beatnik science fictionâ&#x20AC;? when he moved to the town where surrealists Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady cavorted in the 1950s and 1960s, Rucker seems concerned about being inauthentic as he makes shit up amidst his paintings of nudists with UFOs, flying vegetables and disembodied vaginas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve published 32 books, I get anxiety over whether Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just been faking all this time. I wonder if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to do it,â&#x20AC;? Rucker muses. â&#x20AC;?Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got all these rabbits running and all these plot threads.

Am I going to be able to bring it all to a nice, grand, harmonious climax? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be until you get there. You have to trust the muse.â&#x20AC;?

The world outside his meticulously organized writing laboratory is much like the other side of the mortal membrane, where the flims live.

Beyond the railing of the quintessentially Californian wooden wraparound deck that has no doubt shifted with the Santa Cruz Mountainsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; winter rains and seismic activity, a tangle of native and non-native treesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;eucalyptus, pine, bamboo and California oakâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rise over the winding mountain asphalt below. The road leads to Main Street, Los Gatos. Sounds from construction activity at his wealthy neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homes can be heard on this hot midsummer afternoon.

He calls Los Gatos â&#x20AC;&#x153;a very comfortable community,â&#x20AC;? even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bedroom town of â&#x20AC;&#x153;engineers ¨

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Ruckerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 32nd novel, Jim and the Flims (Night Shade Books, 2011), is a departure from its hard-core science fiction predecessors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to try something a little different,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been writing about a â&#x20AC;&#x153;postsingularâ&#x20AC;? world after the advent of â&#x20AC;&#x153;singularity,â&#x20AC;? at which point machines became smarter than humans. There were dragonfly cameras that observed everything.

He threw in teleporting as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was like three hours of nonstop speedmetal,â&#x20AC;? Rucker says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to back off and do something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more like fantasy.

You know, like Harry Potter. Fantasy is doing really well,â&#x20AC;? he points out, though he thinks the Potter series could use a few sci-fi touches, like nanobots.

In Jim and the Flims, his protagonist, Jim, punctures the membrane separating earthly existence from the afterworld. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wants to find his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soul and bring her back to Earth,â&#x20AC;? Rucker says.

Jim winds up in the afterworld, which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much resemble those of classic literature, mythology or religious lore. In this alternate world are no winged angels or hell fires.

Instead there are mythical creatures (â&#x20AC;&#x153;flimsâ&#x20AC;?) like yuels and jivas, rolling green hills and plowed plots with humanoid heads growing like cabbage.

Evil flying beets traverse the horizon, and inhabitants live in a large purple, snail-like pod. With eye stalks.

The Sunnyvale-bred central figure in Jim and the Flims is a recently graduated e. coli bioengineer who worked for a Santa Cruz firm trying to convert human waste into electricity, a job he lost when he served genetically modified eel at a company barbecue. His late parents had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;eaten by their jobs,â&#x20AC;? then financially wiped out in a low-grade investment scam.

Without elaborating on the parallels, Rucker suggests that there are some autobiographical qualities to Jim, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;drawn from my life experiences.â&#x20AC;? His characters are mashups of those around him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I model most of my characters on someone I knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or fragments of people I know, and reassemble them.â&#x20AC;?

How does the sarcastically selfdescribed â&#x20AC;&#x153;kindly old authorâ&#x20AC;? with white hair swept back on

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11 C O V E R S T O R Y | R U D Y R U C K E R and Realtors,â&#x20AC;? not bohemians and artists, as it once was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a big subculture here,â&#x20AC;? he understates.

He appreciates the scruffiness of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown, though he also enjoys Los Gatosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; main drag, Santa Cruz Avenue, which he says has a similar feel â&#x20AC;&#x153;except that people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shoving petitions in your face or asking for money.â&#x20AC;? He bemoans the Silicon Valley townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devolution into a place that sells â&#x20AC;&#x153;stuff to put on your table, like candlesticks and napkins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no bookstore anymore, which is pathetic.â&#x20AC;?

Nonetheless, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as a place to live, I like it.â&#x20AC;? And he especially likes the proximity to Santa Cruz, which is only 20 minutes away at the right time of day. Rucker eavesdropped on Santa Cruz surf culture, picking up the slang, during his frequent jaunts over the summit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like going to Santa Cruz

two or three times a month. I enjoy Pacific Avenue, 14th Street Beach and Four Mile Beach,â&#x20AC;? he says.

North of Santa Cruz on Highway One are the cliffs that Rucker likes to paint in plein air landscapes, just across the Brussels sprout fields from the parked vans where his latest novelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters sleep. Sometimes a giant squid or UFO stalks the unclothed humans in his paintings. The parallel world kicks in around Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern city limits, the defining line of the duality, the boundary between order and chaos, truth and fiction, professorial normalcy and freaky chemical mentalbrain stuff, worldly secularity and Egyptian gods, Silicon Valley and the continentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, life and afterlife. And when the lineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s porous, the paradox, rather than crumbling, becomes even sharper. 0

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RUDY RUCKER | JIM AND THE FLIMS One particular afternoon, I did a drop-in on one of Skeevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waves, forcing him away from the curl.

When we got back to shore, he put his face really close to mine and started yelling curses at me, even throwing in some gibberishtype incantations that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d learned.

Skeeves had this idea that he was hooked into the magic of the pyramidsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or some crap like that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dung-beetle!â&#x20AC;? yelled Skeeves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ankh salaam Amenhotep.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calm down,â&#x20AC;? I told him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a wave.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ruh nuh port mu hurra,â&#x20AC;? Skeeves intoned, making weird gestures with his hands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having a fit,â&#x20AC;? said Chang, standing at a safe distance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His brain is slushed.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a magic spell, fool,â&#x20AC;? said Skeeves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The chant is called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;leaving in the daytime.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I might send you two out of your bodies.â&#x20AC;? He crouched and picked up a dense, sharp rock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take a break, Chang,â&#x20AC;? I said, briskly heading down the beach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get some beer,â&#x20AC;? I called back to Skeeves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can have all my waves while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gone.â&#x20AC;?

Skeevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s van was parked in the lot near Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pickup. Skeeves lived in

this van, mostly, and he had tinted glass in the rear windows. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d painted occult symbols all over the vehicleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; ankh crosses with loops on top, scarab beetles, hovering eyes, hieroglyphs, and a long pair of wings flowing back from the front wheel wells. Peering in through the vanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dusky rear window, we could make out a long gold box in the back of the van. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Skeeves got into the Egyptian stuff when he started dealing dope to Julian Crocker in San Francisco,â&#x20AC;? said Chang. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But, wow. Is that a casket?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crocker?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a screwball descendant of this rich old family. He lives in a mansion with all these wack antiquities.

Skeeves is up there all the time. Last week he was putting together a deal to sell Crocker a bunch of ketamine.â&#x20AC;?

I brooded about Skeeves on the short drive to the Quick Mart in Davenport. And when we got back to the Four Mile Beach parking lot, I took a knife out of Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glove compartment and slashed one of the front tires on Skeevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s van.

Chang and I carried the beer down to the beach and had a mellow hour or two on the waves. I even forgot about slashing Skeevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;until we all went back up to the lot together.

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Tboub!Dsv{/ Skeeves got all excited. Chang was laughing so hard that the weird old surfer quickly figured out it was me whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d done the deed. Skeeves said he was going to kill meâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he fetched an axe with a green-painted handle from the van. I was scared. It was hard to tell what Skeeves might do. And it looked as if the axe blade already had blood on it.

Chang and I ran, leading Skeeves in a big circle. We got back to Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pickup first, then hopped in and drove away.

It was maybe the next day when we saw in the paper that Julian Crocker had been found dead in his home. The cops thought it might be a drug overdose. Crocker was found lying beside a fireplace filled with ashes. Apparently heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d suffocated from some smoke. And an ancient gold sarcophagus was said to be missing from the Crocker manse. But there were no actual signs of robbery.

In any case, Crockerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surviving relatives werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interested in trying to make a case. And the cops quickly lost interest.

Quite a few of the surf crowd must have suspected that Skeeves was involvedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially with that funky gold casket right in his van. A rumor was circulating among us that Skeeves was obsessed with a female mummy that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d found in the gold

box. Worshipping her or something.

Not that any of us was going public with this stuff.

Chang and I had switched to surfing Pleasure Point down near 41st Street in Cruz. There were some psychos there, too, and a few of them made a point of picking on usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially when they found out that we were valley guys from near San Jose. Chang toughed it out and got in with the brahsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his steady supply of weed was a help. But I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get past the hostility.

And then I was, like, to hell with itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I went back to skateboarding.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never been that good of a surfer anyway.

After high school I went to college at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California. I decided to go for a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in bioengineering. Everyone said biotech was the coming thing, and the courses appealed to me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d always liked videogames, and I dug the idea of viewing the natural world as being a big program that we could mod and hack.

Of course there were peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially around Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who worried that biotech was going to bring on some filthy germs whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d kill us all. My professors said that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a real problem because, if you looked ¨ #

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13 F I C T I O N | J I M A N D T H E F L I M S hanging with the mummies?â&#x20AC;?

Even when Skeeves had his shades off, you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really see his eyes, buried as they were in the creases of his weathered lids. He turned his head towards Chang, moving as slowly as a plant tracking the sun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like that girl mummy,â&#x20AC;? allowed Skeeves in a low murmur, his tongue loosened by the pot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not the guy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the box with her. Julian Crocker and I smoked the third mummy, you know. Amenhotep.

He was down under the other two, all crumbly like rotten wood. We burned Amenhotep in Crockerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marble fireplace, the two of us leaning into the fumes, very resinous, very tasty. What a rush. But then Crocker died, the lightweight.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mummies?â&#x20AC;? I said numbly, feeling the layers of reality come peeling off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That mummy womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very tight with her,â&#x20AC;? came Skeevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raspy whisper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always the same.

Every now and then, in my head, she talks to me.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can we see them?â&#x20AC;? asked Chang. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in that gold sarcophagus in the back of your van, right? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re legendary, dude.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Jim here could handle it,â&#x20AC;? said Skeeves thoughtfully. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The spirit of Amenhotep destroys the weak.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did you say that you smoked Amenhotepâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mummy?â&#x20AC;? I had to ask. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You and Crocker?â&#x20AC;?

Skeeves squinted at me for a long time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember the axe, Jim,â&#x20AC;? he said, finally, and laid his bony finger over his lips.

I knew then that Skeeves hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forgotten about the slashed tire at all.

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into it a little, you could see that our whole entire ecology is made of plants, animals, and microorganisms who want to eat everything. All the species had been mutating and evolving for billions of years, each and every one of them striving for world domination. And no piddlyass organism we were going to cook up in a lab had any chance of taking down the ancient, battle-scarred pros. To hear my profs tell it, homebrewed germs were like high-school grommets facing the gnarly surfers of Four Mile Beach.

Well, maybe they were right, and maybe not. Either way, I figured it would be good to have a rebellious, clear-minded guy like me on the inside of the biotech biz. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be ready to blow the whistle on the Earthrapers, if it ever came down to that.

Meanwhile I was hoping to discover some cool things, and to make a good living as well.

My old friend Chang was living down in Cruz by now, too, surfing his ass off. He won a few local contests, and during my junior year at UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Santa Cruz, he got invited to the annual Mavericks big wave contest a few miles up the coast.

I went to watch him, that is, to watch the faint line on the horizon where the big waves were. On the TV monitors, we could see Chang carving sick curves into the wobbly mountains of glass. He placed in the top five and he picked up some sponsorship deals.

Chang came by my rented room a month after Mavericks and lent me a board so we could go riding at Four Mile like old times. Sure enough, our man Skeeves was still on the waves, indefatigable as a Terminator robot, still living in his Egyptian-themed van.

By now Chang was in some sense a friend of Skeeves, that is to say, Skeevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over-tweaked synapses could successfully achieve a patternrecognition of Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. He walked over to us and Chang broke out a joint.

Skeeves seemed to recognize me, but, so far as I could tell, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d forgotten about the slashed tire.

I figured the joint was like a peace pipe. But after a few tokes, Chang, never one to let things stay calm, started ribbing the eccentric old surfer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting much action?â&#x20AC;? Chang asked him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still

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SSC launches a three-season project with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Henry IV, Part Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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BRILLIANT flashes of scarlet punctuated the misty redwood glen last Friday as the third drama in this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shakespeare Santa Cruz opened to a rapt full house. The first of the three central histories tracing the rise of royal rogues, Henry IV, Part I reverberates with one part kingly remorse, another part power grab and a third part Sir John Falstaff. In this masterpiece of language and intrigue, Shakespeare interwove the imagined back story behind the takeover of the English throne by Henry Bolingbroke and the tale of ribald Falstaff, the carousing buddy of the kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, Prince Hal. One of the best-known and best-loved characters in the canon, Falstaff is a larger-thanlife lout whose hard-drinking lifestyle has lowered the standing of the Prince of Wales in the eyes of his father.

Bolingbroke (played with much bluster

by V. Craig Heidenreich)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;whose crown was purchased by the murder of the honorable Richard IIâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wishes that his son would reject the wastrel Falstaff and act like a proper royal. In other words, he wishes Hal (Erik Heger) were more like the Earl of Northumberlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, young Harry â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hotspurâ&#x20AC;? Percy (J. Todd Adams), who is the image of a courageous, royal soldier.

Northumberland (Phil Hubbard) and his kinsmen, including Westmoreland (Jeff Mills), were chosen

HOT ACT TO FOLLOW Warrior and would-be future king Hotspur (J. Todd Adams, center) incites rebellion in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Henry IV, Part One.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; by the late King Richard II to succeed the throne. But Bolingbroke had other plans, and has passed over the legitimate heirs in favor of his own son, the temporarily dissolute Hal. Determined to regain what is rightfully theirs, Northumberland and his allies have made common cause with Glendower, a powerful Welsh chieftain who brings men and loquacious magic to the bid to win back lands and prestige.

If this all sounds complicated, it rang clearly and powerfully in the new production of the play that launched the SSC career of a young Paul Whitworth, who played a wild punk rocker Hal in 1984. The company is bracingly directed by Scott Wentworth, and the action storms across the simple yet effective set (also used in Three Musketeers) in seamless fashion, with B. Modernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understated costumes of black leather punctuated with splendid flourishes of scarlet and gold.

Betting that modern audiences arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t up on their early renaissance history,

Wentworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production begins with a brief prologue getting us up to speed.

Bolingbroke learns that civil war is brewing, and the audacious Hotspurâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mars in swaddling clothesâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;has just defeated an invasion of Scots. Moving briskly, the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rhythms are largely determined by some pivotal casting decisions. It will come as no surprise to audiences who remember J. Todd Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; astonishing turn as Puck in 2009â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Midsummer Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream that he climbs into his characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unrestrained passion and never lets go.

So adroit is Adams, in physical grace and gusto as well as verbal intelligence, that he commands the stage with his every speech and gesture. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to tire of watching this disarming and subtle actor swoop, cajole and thunder both in his monumental tirades as well as measured, nuanced asides. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reason enough to see this Henry more than once.

Every bit his match in verbal cunning and eloquent sight gags is Richard Zimanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Falstaff, who makes

witty, crystalline mincemeat out of some of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smartest ripostes.

So fine is this entire company, especially in the tightly-choreographed ensemble scenes, that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to remember that we are watching actors describing the woes and deceits of five centuries ago and 3,000 miles away. I would have enjoyed a more nimble Hal to match Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; insolent Hotspur, but the opening nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audience was glued to Zimanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Falstaff. Kudos as well to the bawdy slatterns of Cheapside, who offered a few memorable moments of Shakespearean rag, and to the haunting vocal work of Sepideh Moafi as the Welsh Lady Mortimer.

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MARIN ALSOP claims variety is a goal of her Cabrillo Festival programming. Plenty of that was heard in the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two full orchestra programs last weekend.

Nine of 10 works performed Friday and Saturday nights at Civic Auditorium were composed since 2003, while one of the best, Shuko Mizunoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Natsu, dates from 1988. Born in 1934, the shy Mizuno seemed a bit shell-shocked by the Cabrillo orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brilliant performance and the boisterous audience response that followed.

From the podium, Alsop described the workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the title of which means â&#x20AC;&#x153;summerâ&#x20AC;? in Japaneseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as â&#x20AC;&#x153;harmonically denseâ&#x20AC;? and its composer as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Japanese Rouse,â&#x20AC;? referring to one of the Americans she has long championed at Cabrillo.

Mizunoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25-minute symphonic poem does indeed bear comparison with some of Pulitzer Prize winner Christopher Rouseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s single-movement scores, especially where the full orchestra explodes in a tapestry of mind-boggling complexity. Yet, for all its denseness, Mizuno keeps the texture transparent, no small achievement when everyone onstage is furiously engaged. (How Alsop protects her ears against the fortissimo onslaughts she conjures up is a closely held secret.) Otherwise, however, Mizunoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s textures tend toward a warmly sonorous character, in contrast to Rouseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predictable edginess. Moreover, Natsu provides moments of intimacy, calling on

SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER Composer Shuko Mizuno acknowledges applause after Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. premiere of his symphonic work, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Natsuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;).

only a few players and cameo solos of great delicacy.

The Saturday program also delivered some refreshingly welcome news from Iran in the form of a grand, romantic piano concerto by ex-pat Behzad Ranjbaran, a graduate of the Teheran Conservatory, Indiana University and Juilliard.

Redolent of Khatchaturianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand piano concerto, this 2008 work also carried its fair share of local folkloric colorisms. The dramatic first movement, with powerful outbursts against soulfully fragile moments, was followed in turn by Distant Dreams, a nocturnal fantasy, then a festive finale. Soloist JeanYves Thibaudetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alsopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;favorite pianistâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;displayed a remarkably complimentary color palette of his own, and sizzling virtuosity.

The concert opened with Elena Kats-Cherninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charming homage to Astor Piazzolla, Re-Collecting ASTORoids.

Among dangers composers face is completing a work that turns out to be more personal than communicative. On Friday night, Rouseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Odna Zhizn (A Life) painted a portrait of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the love of my life,â&#x20AC;?

who, evidently, endured numerous personal trials. Rouse introduced it by remarking on its â&#x20AC;&#x153;code,â&#x20AC;? which wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be understood anyway.

Oops! That comment charged the audience with an expectation, if not a distraction. The piece proved to be a thorny rideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not unusual for this talented composerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but overwrought and expressively arcane.

James MacMillanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Concerto No. 3 Mysteries of Light sparkled with the Scotsmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distinctive orchestrations and craftsmanship, though the piano part, realized by Thibaudet, tended more toward the decorative than the substantial.

It nicely recalled some of Olivier Messiaenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enchanting bird songs.

The Friday program also included an â&#x20AC;&#x153;airborne postcardâ&#x20AC;? by Mason Bates called Desert Transport and opened with a tasty and energetic morsel by Margaret Brouwer titled Pulse.

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ART LEAGUE

Mix It Up, Mixed Media August 5 - September 4 Artwork by: D. Hooker

Juried Show Prospectus:

“Works on Paper”

$1,000 in Awards, Deadline August 12

Open to County Artists: “Small Wonders” Dec.10 - Jan. 8

Up to 3 pieces, 1/$20 - 2/$25 - 3/$30 Anything 14” and under w/frame.

Drop-off: 12/4, 12-2pm, 12/5, 2-4pm

Classes, Life Drawing & more online!

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2/<13 Vintage Gypsy Bellydance Cabaret and Costume Party An evening of entertainment featuring performances by New Orleansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kerry Lynn, Misty Eve, Chelsie Lilley and Miranda of Purrfect Girl, plus an open dance floor and prizes for best costume.

Fri, Aug 12, 7:30pm. $10.

Backstage Lounge, 1207 Soquel Ave at Seabright, Santa Cruz, 831.689.0923 831.689.0924.

B63/B3@ Cirque Polynesian See Polynesian dancing and find out what â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese pole,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;cyr wheel,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;tissu,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;hand to hand,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;rolla bolla,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fire knifeâ&#x20AC;? are. Mon-Thu, 12 and 3pm. Thru Aug 18. Free.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7433.

The Comedy of Errors Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular farce, featuring two sets of twins separated at birth, mistaken identity, lyrical comedy and rollicking slapstick. Thu-Sun Thru Aug 28. $14-$44. UCSC Mainstage Theater, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.

Hairspray John Watersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; beloved musical about a teenage dancer who rallies against racial segregation in 1962.

Wed-Sun Thru Aug 14. $16$38. Cabrillo Music Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

Henry IV, Part One In the first installment of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making of a Kingâ&#x20AC;? trilogy (to be continued by SSC in 2012 and 2013) Prince Hal is next in line for the British throne while his father, King Henry, is embroiled in an all-ornothing military battle to save the crown. Thru Aug 28. $14-$44. Redwood Glen, NA, Loma Mar, 831.459.2159.

The Last Five Years A one-act song cycle by Tony Award winning composer Jason Robert Brown explores the five-year relationship between novelist Jamie and struggling actress Cathy.

Thu-Sat, 8pm and Sun, 3pm. Thru Aug 14. $16-$38.

Cabrillo Black Box Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 831.479.6154.

The Story of Seven Macaw The second installment of El Teatro Campesinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original three-part adaptation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Popol Vuh,â&#x20AC;? the sacred creation book of the Quiche Maya. Sat-Sun, 4pm. Thru Aug 14. Free. San Juan Soccer Field, 100 Nyland Drive, San Juan Bautista, 831.402.0105.

Thoroughly Modern Millie All About Theatre stages a production of the jazzy Broadway hit about a young woman who moves to 1920s New York in search of a new life. Fri, Aug 12, 7pm, Sat, Aug 13, 2 and 7pm and Sun, Aug 14, 2pm. $9-$12. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.345.6340.

novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Thru Aug 28. $14-$44.

Redwood Glen, NA, Loma Mar, 831.459.2159.

1=<13@BA Alexx Calisse Rock from L.A. Fri, Aug 12, 4pm. Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

Cabrillo Festival Music at the Mission: Bright Wings The grand finale performance of the Cabrillo Festival. The festival orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, will perform pieces by Chiayu, Anna Clyne, Dan Welcher, Pierre Jalbert and Avner Dorman. Sun, Aug 14, 4:30 and 8:30pm. $40 day/$50 evening. Mission San Juan Bautista, 408 Second St at Mariposa, San Juan Bautista, 831.420.5260.

Cabrillo Festival: Entangled The Cabrillo Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop, playing pieces by Zosha Di Castri, Robin de Raaff, George Tsontakis and Michael Daugherty. Sat, Aug 13, 8pm. $32-$50. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

Roger Eddy Part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evenings by the Bayâ&#x20AC;? summer concert series, presented by the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Aquarium. Sat, Aug 13, 6-8pm. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey.

The Three Musketeers Dazzling swordplay, harrowing adventure and sweeping romance in this adaptation of the classic

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Eels Consistently underrated project of Mark Everett, the Randy Newman of his time. Aug 11 at Great American Music Hall.

Outside Lands Festival Arcade Fire, Deadmau5, Phish, Muse, Black Keys, the Roots and many more. Aug 12-14 in Golden Gate Park.

Buffy Sainte-Marie Classic folk songstress makes rare small-club appearance. Aug 14 at Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SF.

Bomb the Music Industry Do you know their songs? Band policy says you can show up and join the band onstage. Aug 15 at Bottom of the Hill.

The Go-Goâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Or, in other words: remembering all the songs that were so much better than â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Got the Beat.â&#x20AC;? Aug 16 at the Fillmore.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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1=<B7<C7<5 Davenport Gallery Cash Clash Culture.

A multimedia show highlighting money, values and aesthetics in our world.

Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reception Sat, Aug. 13 4-7pm. Thru Aug 28.

Free. 450 Hwy 1, Davenport, 831.426.1199.

Felix Kulpa Gallery Pictures of Things I May Have Forgotten. New works

by Blaise Rosenthal. Thru Aug 31. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council Sculpture Is. 56 artists and 135 sculptures among two acres of Mediterranean gardens. Thru Oct 31.

831.728.2532. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville.

Santa Cruz County Bank Birds of a Feather. Seven artists observe birds through original prints, paintings, photographs, encaustic and assemblage. On display at all branch locations. 595 Auto Center Dr, Watsonville. Thru Sep 30. Free. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.457.5000.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center From the Mountains.

Highlighting open studios artists. Thru Oct 22. Free, 831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.

Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios Hitting a Subcutaneous Nerve. Vaguely scientific lithographs, intaglio prints, woodcuts and handbound books by UCSC graduate Ari Bird. Thru Aug 31. Free.

118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.

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ArtWorx. Mixed media paintings by Jane Harlow and new sculptures by Aaron Van de Kerckhove. Thru Sep 17.

Free. 1043 Water St, Santa Cruz, 831.476.8007.

Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History Endangered Neighbors.

Conservation photographs

by Sebastian Kennerknecht.

Wed-Sun . Thru Sep 10. TueSun, 10am-5pm. 1305 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6115.

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Fine art, great food, wine from local wineries and live music. Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm.

Thru Aug 14. Free. Skypark, 361 Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Village Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.438.1010.

Wings & Wings. An exhibition of photorealistic automotive and aviation original paintings, limited edition Giclees and prints by internationally-reknown fine artist and Carmel Valley resident Thierry Thompson.

Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reception Aug 16, 5-7pm. Aug 10-31. Free, 831.620.2040. San Carlos Street at Ninth Avenue, Carmel.

plates, grille badges, hood ornaments, auto themed apparel, original art and photography. Tue, Aug 16, 10am-6pm and Wed, Aug 17, 10am-7pm. $15 single day/$20 two day.

Embassy Suites Seaside, 1441 Canyon Del Rey, Seaside, 831.443.3092.

Club Uke Open Mic Proceeds from this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uke-only open mic night benefit the Santa Cruz SPCA. Tickets available at UkeList. com/Club-Uke Sat, Aug 13, 7pm. $10 adv. Backstage Lounge, 1207 Soquel Ave at Seabright, Santa Cruz, 831.689.0923 831.689.0924.

Curtis Reliford Dance Competition All ages and styles welcome to enter, first place winner receives a $100 cash prize.

Sun, Aug 14, 1-5pm. $7. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Diversity Center Luau Revel in the island breezes, eat fabulous Polynesian food, laugh, dance and enjoy the live entertainment of Kalae â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boboâ&#x20AC;? Miles and guests.

Island attire encouraged. Sat, Aug 13, 1-5pm. $8 donation suggested. Cypress Lounge, 120 Union St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.9876â&#x20AC;&#x161;Ă&#x201E;ĂŠ.

English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Second Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

Fearless Painting A workshop in acrylic techniques and process offered by Susan Dorf. SatSun, 9am-3:30pm. Thru Aug 14. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.

Musical Saw Festival The greatest saw players in the world join together to play bluegrass, country, folk, gospel, blues, classical and show tunes and go mano-a-mano in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;SawOffâ&#x20AC;? competition. Sun, Aug 14. $17-$26. Roaring Camp, Narrow Gauge Railroad, Graham Hill and Mount Herman Road, Felton, 831.335.4484.

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Wander through the recreated wilderness encampments of early trappers, watch frontiersmen perfect their skills and chow down on Chuck Wagon barbecue. Sat, Aug 13 and Sun, Aug 14. $17-$26.

Roaring Camp, Narrow Gauge Railroad, Graham Hill and Mount Herman Road, Felton, 831.335.4484.

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Nothing is considered too bodacious.

Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest produced pieces like the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boulder Holder,â&#x20AC;? an artsy bra intricately laid with blue stones; the provocative â&#x20AC;&#x153;Squeeze Me, Stomp Me, Make Me Wine,â&#x20AC;? fashioned from wine corks and grapes; and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Double Shot,â&#x20AC;? an uplifting display of coffee beanfestooned cups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truly amazing how creative and fun the entries are every year,â&#x20AC;? says Monica DeCosta, co-chair of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gala.

The, ahem, perks go to WomenCARE, an organization that supports local women who have cancer, and Gemma, a program of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, which helps women reintegrate with their families and the community after incarceration. Last year, Bras for A Cause raised $11,000, and this year is expected to bust right out of that category. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The enthusiasm for the event has really grown, because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a lot more outreach in the community over the past year, and I have to say, the response has been great,â&#x20AC;? says Kate McGuire of Soroptimist International.

Awards include cash prizes for the top three winning bras. Bras may be entered no later than Aug. 12, so artists breast get busy.

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blanket or low-back chair and enjoy a classic film on the beach. Wed, Aug 10, 9pm. Free. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7433.

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Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

Workshop: Write Your Own Future with Marcia Heinegg â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of Retirement,â&#x20AC;? part one of a four-part series. Wed, Aug 17, 10:30am-12pm. $10.

Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

Young Adult Literature Community Book Group This weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selection is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Wed, Aug 10, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.

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by Mary Winfree, researcher and BioMedical Sciences PhD, about agricultural policy, endangered species and water use in California.

Wed, Aug 17, 7pm. Free.

Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz.

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Email the director, pr_sawyer@hotmail.com.

Also seeking volunteers in several areas including sets, costumes, props and publicity, email info@svpaa. org. Aug 10-17. Bethany University Theatre, 800 Bethany Dr, Scotts Valley, 831.818.1516.

Call for Entries: Works on Paper $1,000 in awards available, juried by Preston Metcalf, Chief Curator, Triton Museum of Art. Jpeg & Prospectus deadline Friday, August 12, 2011, 5pm.

Questions: cindy@scal.org.

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Thursday, August 11 U 7 & 9 pm Virtuoso Keyboardist/Composer!

KEIKO MATSUI

$28/Adv $31/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps Sponsored by Smoothjazz.com

Thursday, August 18 U 7 pm

SOPHIE MILMAN

$22/Adv $25/Door Friday, August 19 U 7 pm

AN EVENING OF STRINGS: BUCKY PIZZARELLI, HOWARD ALDEN & HOWARD PAUL $25/Adv $28/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps

Sponsored by MIner Family Vineyards

Monday, August 22 U 7 pm

NINETY MILES featuring STEFON HARRIS, DAVID SANCHEZ, CHRISTIAN SCOTT $25/Adv $28/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps 8/24 8/25 8/29 9/1 9/8

Susana Baca â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peruvian vocalist!

Dillon Baiocchi Quintet Oliver Lake Organ Quartet Dominick Farinacci Group Luisa Maita

Advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org amd Logos Books & Records.

Dinner served one hour prior. Prremium wine and beer.

Tickets subject to service charge and 5% city tax. All age venue.

320-2 Cedar St s Santa Cruz 427-2227

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A phoned-in cameo on a Katy Perry song, a rap for a Bollywood filmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Snoop Dogg has so much accrued cred heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s untouchable, no matter what improbable guest appearance he may cash a paycheck for. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what happens when your debut album stands as one of the greatest in hip-hop history, and you follow that with a string of lesser albums that still boast classic singles. In his lethargic latter-day guest spots he seems to be getting paid by the syllable, but he still has one of the most effortless flows in the industry, with a laid-back laconic drawl and unwavering charisma. The Catalyst; $53 adv/$59 door; 8pm. (Paul M. Davis)

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Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (CJ)

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not so badâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there are few bands from that era with such a consistent string of hits, and even fewer that boast a frontwoman as electrifying as Terri Nunn, the sassy and salacious force of nature that set Berlin apart from their peers. The Boardwalk; free; 6:30 and 8:30pm. (PMD)

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jam features the sounds of Honest Mistake, The Devil Himself, Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holdin, Take 1, The SSPX and Fireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fury in an eclectic mix of reggae, punk, metal and blues rock. Along with musical candy, Mountain Palooza will feature raffled prizes and free sticker packs for the first 100 audience members through the door. Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; $10; 7:30pm.

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Despite lineup changes, the band continues to grow and has headlined music festivals throughout the world.

This Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show honors the birthday of the late Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey. Catalyst; $18 adv/$20 door; 8:30pm. (MW)

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!DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M Thursday, August 11 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+ HIGH ON FIRE plus Dusted Angel also Catacomb Creeps s P M P M Friday, August 12 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+ TATER FAMINE plus Soda G also The Junkos $RS ONLY s P M P M Tuesday, August 16 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 18+ BIRD OF PREYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Know Knowone, Carly-D, Dr. Knobz, Black Rock City All Stars, Energy Alchemist s P M P M Aug 17 Groundation (Ages 16+) Aug 17 Bomb the Music Industry Atrium (Ages 16+) Aug 18 Spin Farm Atrium (Ages 21+) Aug 19 & 20 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Aug 19 Freestyle Fellowship Atrium (Ages 16+) Aug 20 Archer Atrium (Ages 21+) Aug 26 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Aug 27 Snail/ The Spell (Ages 21+) Aug 28 Pat Travers Band Atrium (Ages 21+) Sep 2 Montrose (Ages 21+) Sep 10 Fury 66 (Ages 16+) Sep 14 Black Uhuru (Ages 16+) Sep 16 Tesla (Ages 21+) Sep 17 J Boog (Ages 16+) Sep 20 Hank 3 Attention DeďŹ cit Domination (Ages 21+) Sep 22 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Sep 24 Jimmy Eat World (Ages 16+) Oct 6 New Found Glory (Ages 16+) Nov 2 Mac Miller (Ages 16+) Nov 3 Collie Buddz (Ages 16+)

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Film Capsules <3E 1/>A 30 MINUTES OR LESS (R; 91 min.) A pizza delivery boy (Jesse Eisenberg) is kidnapped by two bumbling criminals (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) and ordered to rob a bank or else be blown up. (Opens Thu midnite at Santa Cruz 9 and Scotts Valley and Fri at Green Valley)

ANGELS & AIRWAVES PRESENTS LOVE (LIVE) The rock supergroupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boston show is streamed live in 450 theaters across the country.

(Wed 8/10 at Santa Cruz 9) ANOTHER EARTH (PG-13; 110 min.) An astrophysics student (Brit Marling) crashes into another vehicle and finds herself drawn to the accidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone survivor on the dawn of the ultimate chance at redemption.

SHOWTIMES

(Opens Fri at Nickelodeon)

DCI: BIG, LOUD AND LIVE 8 (NR; 195 min.) Drum Corps Internationalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cinecast shows the marching band 2011 World Championships.

(Thu at Santa Cruz 9) THE DEVILâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DOUBLE (R; 116 min.) A docudrama about an Iraqi army lieutenant (Dominic Cooper) who is hand-picked to be a body double for Saddam Husseinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Uday and must learn

FINAL DESTINATION 5 (R; 92 min.) Characters die one by one when a suspension bridge fails. (Opens Thu midnite at Santa Cruz 9 and Scotts Valley and Fri at Green Valley) A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) Clint Eastwood stars in a Sergio Leone film about

a stranger who wanders into a town bitterly divided between two families and craftily plays them both.

(Sat-Sun at Aptos)

GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (NR; probably way too long) A movie based on the Glee 2011 summer concert tour. With Gwyneth Paltrow. (Starts Fri at Santa Cruz 9 and Scotts Valley) THE HELP (PG-13; 154 min.)

Showtimes are for Wednesday, Aug. 10, through Wednesday, Aug. 17, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

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Movie reviews by Tessa Stuart and Richard von Busack

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In 1960s Mississippi, newly minted college graduate Skeeter (Emma Stone) goes against the social grain when she decides to write about the black servants in her community. With Viola Davis, Cicely Tyson, Sissy Spacek and others.

(Opens Wed at Aptos, Del Mar, Green Valley and Scotts Valley)

THE KARATE KID (2010) Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan take a whack at the roles previously owned by Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. (Wed 8/10-Thu 8/11 at Scotts Valley and Wed 8/17 at 41st Ave) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) David Leanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s epic (216 minutes) film stars Peter Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole as the British spy T. E. Lawrence, whose World War I-era mischief on the Arabian Peninsula helped bring about the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

With Alec Guinness, Anthony Hopkins and Omar Sharif. (Thu at Santa Cruz 9) NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (2010) Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives at a farm run by a harried single mother and teaches her two kids and their bratty cousins a thing or two. With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Maggie Smith. (Wed 8/10Thu 8/11 at 41st Ave) RIFFTRAX LIVE: JACK THE GIANT KILLER (PG: 120 min.)

The wiseacres of Mystery Science Theater 3000 deliver a live cinecast riff on a corny 1962 horror story starring Vikings, rubber monsters and a leprechaun in a jar. (Wed 8/17 at Santa Cruz 9) SARAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KEY (PG-13; 111 min.) Kristin Scott Thomas is an American living in Paris with her French husband (Frederic Pierrot) when she discovers that the apartment building owned by his family has a tragic history bound up in the plight of the Jews during World War II. (Opens Fri at Del Mar) SHREK FOREVER AFTER (2010) The final film in the series has Shrek (Mike Myers) in an illadvised struggle with Rumpelstiltskin (Will Dohrn), who conspires to erase the ogre from history. (Wed 8/17 at Scotts Valley)

@3D73EA BEGINNERS (R; 104 min.) In this semi-autobiographical film inspired by writerdirector Mike Millsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; past, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) must deal with two revelations about his father (Christopher Plummer): that, after 45 years of marriage to Oliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s late mother, he is coming out of the closet; and that he has terminal cancer. Such honesty marks a new beginning for the father-son relationship and helps Oliver define his feelings for a French actress he has just met (MĂŠlanie Laurent).

BUCK (PG; 88 min.)

This documentary, fresh from a successful run at Sundance, tells the story of â&#x20AC;&#x153;horse whispererâ&#x20AC;? Buck Brannaman. The film reveals Brannamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childhood history of abuse.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13; 124 min.) In the live action origin story of the Marvel comics series, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is deemed unfit to join the Army, but he finds another way of fighting the Nazis: He joins a secret military project. When a special serum renders him capable of superhuman feats of strength, he and his sidekick Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) take on Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main man, Red Skull (Hugo Weaving).

THE CHANGE-UP (R; 113 min.) Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star in story of two friends since childhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one responsible, married and with kids, the other single and irresponsibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who wake up one morning in each othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives.

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG-13 118 min.) When aliens land in the Wild West with a view of colonizing the Earth it is up to Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and the citizens of the Arizona Territory town of Absolution to stop them.

An epic showdown ensues, but will it mean twilight for the extraterrestrials?

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG-13; 118 min.) When Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is dumped by his wife, he goes looking for solace at the bottom of a bottle but finds it in a chance meeting with a studly young player

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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (R; 110 min.) Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis star in this romance aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;well, the name says it all. With Andy Samberg, Woody Harrelson and Patricia Clarkson.

HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART II (PG-13; 130 min.) Director David Yates wraps up the 10-year saga in a cluttered, confusing finaleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent it from being a fast-paced adventure that definitively strikes the sets.

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), now a sturdy, bland young man, must go solo against the Noseless One (Ralph Fiennes), who, sickened by the loss of most of his soul, looks like a poisoned, bleached ape. And what of Snape (Alan Rickman)? This should have been Snapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crescendoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nope. The reveal of a tender heart under a supercilious hide is all we get.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nocturnal film, and Yates is at his best borrowing from Fritz Lang: the cloaked scholars in formation in the courtyard, the figures in silhouette meeting on a staircase top. The downside is claustrophobia from lack of natural light. The religious cranks who said the Potter films failed to endorse the traditional family will get theirs in the epilogue, which returns this horror story to the kid-friendly place where it began. (RvB) MAGIC TRIP (R) Two directors got unprecedented access to 16mm footage shot by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on their

1964 road trip across America aboard the Magic Bus.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13; 100 min.) Woody Allen wrote and directed this film about Gil (Owen Wilson), a killjoy writer on vacation in Paris with his fiancĂŠe (Rachel McAdams) and her family. When they run into some old friends (Michael Sheen and Nina Arianda), Gil begins stealing away from his party by taking conspicuously long walks at night.

He soon discovers a newfound love for the city, and life, in this romantic comedy that asks the question: Is a different life better, or is it justâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;different?

As Caesar grows, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played by a synthespian modeled on the always-amazing Andy Serkis; this and the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s links to the tragic story of Nim Chimpsky (as seen recently in Project Nim) â&#x20AC;&#x153;grounds the balloonâ&#x20AC;? as James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum put it. The last third of the film, thrilling and fast, takes over Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story. Wyatt shines here, bringing in images of urban rebellion that have as much zeitgeist as the first Apes movie did in 1968. Like the J.J. Abrams remake of Star Trek, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a demolition job but a handsomely done renovation of an old property. (RvB)

PROJECT NIM (NR; 93 min.)

From the director of Man on Wire, a documentary about a chimpanzee raised as a humanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;complete with training in sign languageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the 1970s.

Nim was sent on a bouncing journey from place to place as his animal nature asserted itself and one group of humans after another found itself unable to cope with him.

SMURFS (PG; 86 min.) The evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria) drives the Smurfs from their woodland village. In their haste, the little blue fellows stumble into a mysterious portal, which spits them out in New York City where they are taken in by a sweet married couple (Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays) who tries to help them find their way home.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 115 min.) If there are two words that sum up Rupert Wyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film, they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;strangely plausible.â&#x20AC;? At Genesis, a Bay Area genetic tech lab of about 2012 or so, scientist Will Rodman (Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own James Franco) is working on a cure for Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. When a superintelligent baby lab chimp named Caesar is ordered to be destroyed, Will brings him home to his Peninsula home, and a San Francisco Zoo veterinarian (Freida Pinto) helps him raise the critter.

THE TRIP (NR; 115 min.) Comic masters of impression and insult Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take their British television series to the big screen with this story of two pals tooling around northern England on a tour of fine restaurants, irritating each other to no end.

WINNIE-THE-POOH (G; 69 min.)

Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit and Piglet set out to rescue Christopher Robin after Pooh misinterprets a note from Christopher and assumes he has been kidnapped by a creature named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Backson.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Doubleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; looks at the horror show that was Saddamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iraq BY RICHARD VON BUSACK IN THE irresistibly tough The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Double, director Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) takes on Uday Husseinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nero-worthy enormities.

Uday was nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abu Harsan,â&#x20AC;? the wolf, yet the satanic son of Saddam had his gentler side.

Reviewing his video collection, Newsweek sniped, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those viewed so far have been less pornographic than puerile.â&#x20AC;? Sure he was a rapist, a torturer and a murderer, but he owned three copies of Air Bud. After surviving the front in the Iraq/Iran War, the army officer Latif (Dominic Cooper) is called in for a meeting with a man he knew (and apparently disliked) from school. It has struck Uday Hussein that all great men have doubles to foil assassins. So Latif endures a round of plastic surgery and dental prosthesis. (Uday has a gap in his teeth; when he gives his spine-chilling grin, he looks like a leering camelid.)

At first, Tamahori and Cooper make Uday seem a charming Lucifer by contrast to a slightly stiff and wary Latif.

Between them is Udayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significant concubine, sashaying through his palaces.

Sarrab (appropriately pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;Syrupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) is played by the infernally chemical Ludivine Sagnier. Lounging at various Iraqi discos in a spectrum

of Dynel wigs, Sagnier has the kind of mouth once described by writer Angela Carter as waiting for someone, anyone, everyone to pop a piece of candy into it. Sarrab exists in such a beautifully mimicked state of heat that it looks as if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually going to melt, that the already wide-set eyes are going to begin drifting shoulderward.

Sarrab spurs the transformation of Latif. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ceremony begun in bed as George H.W. Bush commences the Gulf War bombing of the capital of his former political ally. Latif â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quietness and wariness begin to look like watching and waiting. And in contrast to this suaveness, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Udayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s braying, vicious tyrant one wants to see get it.

If I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t made it clear thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a trashy streak to the film, here goes.

While modeled on De Palmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scarface (with oily, fringed haircut, the flagrant fellation of Gran Corona cigars, the gold-plated automatic pistols), The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Double is essentially more fun.

Tony Montana was, as he said, just a businessman. This Uday had a whole nation to devour.

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Last week the charming little stand was bursting with zinnias, yarrows and Peruvian lilies, as well as slender young celeries, salad mix and padron peppers.

Baskets overflowed with summer squashes in pale greens and yellow, fat pink beets and bold crimson strawberries. So it seems that now on Tuesdays when you crave that end-of-the-day pot of tea and lavender cookie from River Cafe, you can also take home a sweet bouquet and green beans for a dinnertime stir fry. At least that was last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s micro-harvest from Everett Family Farm, a longtime favorite vendor at both the Westside Saturday farmers market and the Live Oak market.

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Dinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide

Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Santa Cruz Weekly food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro Santa Cruz.

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Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

Open daily 11am to 2am.

Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, Lunch 11am-2pm, Dinner 5-9pm.

Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

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7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465

meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

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104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888

All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Marianneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

537A6/ ACA67 Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 superfresh fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

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1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials.

Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

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231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933

international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

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203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900

California cuisine. Nightly specials include prime rib and lobster. Daily 7am-2am.

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1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588

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328 Ingalls St, 831.425.6771

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1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664

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221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852

Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib!

Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

Features the vibrant and esoteric wines of Bonny Doon Vineyard, a three-course, family-style prix fixe menu that changes nightly, and an inventive small plates menu, highlighting both seasonal and organic ingredients from local farms.

California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic noodle & rice bowls, vegan menu, fish & meat options, Vietnamese style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Cheap Eats.â&#x20AC;? Open daily 11am-11pm American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.

Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.

Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.

Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars.

Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.

California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Eggs Benedict in Town.â&#x20AC;? Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Halfprice appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s Vegas meets â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian.

vegetarian.Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430

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Eclectic Pan Asian dishes. Vegetarian, seafood, lamb and chicken with a wok emphasis since 1972. Cafe, catering, culinary classes, food festivals, beer and wine. Open for lunch and dinner daily except Sunday 11:30-9pm. Special events most Sundays.

Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old styleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

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1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700

Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

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555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321

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1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930

Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30ammidnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

402 Ingalls Street, Ste 27 831.425.4900

taproom or the outdoor patio while you dine on Bavarian pretzels, a bowl of french fries, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best fish tacos and more.

Open everday noon until 10pm. Food served until 7pm.

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Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; sexy menu listings and wines to match. Dinner Mon-Thu 510pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

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710 Front St, 831.427.4444

Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza.

Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm.

Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

A1=BBA D/::3G $ 63/D3<:G 1/43 American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm. $ 87/ B3::/¸A Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, 831.438.5005

Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

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India. A Ass ffar ar aass I kknow, now, nnoo oone ne hhas as written an actual instructional ma manual anual with the theme she named in her title. If anyone ccould ould do it, though, it would be you right now now.. Lately, Latelyy, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve y been getting smarter smarter by by doing doing the the most most oordinary rdinary tthings. hings. YYouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve bbeen een drawing drawing life-enhancing life-enhancing llessons essons ffrom rom eevents vents tthat hat oothers thers might might rregard egard aass iinconsequential nconsequential oorr uunsophisticated. nsophisticated. I suspect that this tr trend end will continu continue ue in the coming days.

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Californian Weaver worked Californian named named Scott Scott W eaver w orked oon n ccreating reating a scale model of San Fr Francisco ancisco usi using ing toothpick toothpicks. s.

Meanwhile, New Brunswick, was Meanwhile, Eric Eric Miklos, Miklos, of of N ew B runswick, CCanada, anada, w as assembling a 40-foot-long 40-foot-long chain of bottle caps. And in 67-foot-tall in 22006, 006, a tteam eam of of aartists rtists cconstructed onstructed a 6 7-foot-tall gingerbread Mall gingerbread house, house, the the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s llargest, argest, iinside nside tthe he M all ooff America America in in Bloomington, Bloomington, M Minn. inn. TThese hese aare re nnot ot the the kkinds inds of stupendous feats feats I advise you too get started on in the coming coming weeks, weeks, Leo. Leo. The The astrological astrological oomens mens ssuggest uggest tthat hat youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll aattract ttract bblessings lessings iinto nto yyour our llife ife if if yyou ou llaunch aunch ddeeply eeply meaningful masterpieces, not triv trivial ial or silly ones.

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SSCORPIO CORPIO (Oct. (Oct. 223â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 221): 1): LLetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s etâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s say, say, hypothetically hypothetically speaking, that you yoou canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get The Most Beautiful Thing.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out out of of reach reach forever. forever. You You simply simply donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have have the the connections or wherewithal w ewithal to bring it into your life. wher life.

Could you accept accept that disappointment with a full heart, and and move move on? on? Would Would you you be be able able to to forgive forgive life life for for not not providing providing you wi with th your number one heart heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire, desire, and and tthen hen m make ake yyour our w way ay iinto nto tthe he ffuture uture w with ith nnoo hhard ard feelings? would well feelings? IIff sso, o, SScorpio, corpio, I bbet et yyou ou w ould bbee w ell pprimed rimed ttoo cultivate cultivate a relationship relatioonship with The Second Most Beautiful Thing.

SSAGITTARIUS AGITT G TARIUS A ((Nov. Nov. 222â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 221): 1): W What hat iimages mages w would ould bbee m most ost hhelpful elpful ffor or yyou ou ttoo ffill ill yyour our iimagination magination uupp w with? ith?

W What hat sscenes cenes w would ould hheal eal aand nd aactivate ctivate yyour our ssubconscious ubconscious m ind, iinspiring nspiring yyou ou iin n jjust ust tthe he rright ight w ays? I iinvite nvite mind, ways? yyou ou ttoo m make ake a llist ist ooff aatt lleast east ffive ive ooff tthese hese aand nd tthen hen vvisualize isualize tthem hem ooften ften iin n tthe he ccoming oming ddays. ays. H Here ere aare re a ffew ew ppossibilities ossibilities ttoo gget et yyou ou w warmed armed uup: p: ppeach each ttrees rees ffilled illed with ripe fruit; th he planet Jupiter as seen thr ough a the through ppowerful owerful ttelescope; elescope; a m magnificent agnificent ssuspension uspension bbridge ridge aatt dawn or dusk; a lar large ge chorus animatedly singing a song you love; the blis blissful ssful fface ace of a person you love.

CCAPRICORN APRICORN ((Dec. Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 119): 9): SScientists cientists hhave ave pproved roved bbeyond eyond a doubt doubt tthat hat hheavenly eavenly bbodies odies ccannot annot ppossibly ossibly exert fforces orces thatt aff affect ect events on earth, right? W Well, ell, no, actually actually, y, according accoording to rresearch esearch rreported eported in the Dec. 224, 4, 2009 2009 eedition dition ooff tthe he sscience cience jjournal ournal N ature. IItt tturns urns Nature. out that the gr gravitational avvitational tug of the sun and moon sends signif significant icantt tr tremors emors through through CCaliforniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aliforniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s San A Andreas ndreas FFault ault and and could could potentially potentially trigger trigger full-blown full-blown eearthquakes. arthquakes. SSpeaking peaking aass a ppoet, oet, nnot ot a sscientist, cientist, I speculate that th those hose two luminaries, the sun and moon, m may ay aalso lso generate generate a llurching urching bbut ut m medicinal edicinal eeffect ffect oon n you sometime so soon. oon. Ar Aree you rready eady ffor or a healing jol jolt? t? building It will ill rrelieve elieve li the th tension t i that th t has h been b b ildi up between two of your â&#x20AC;&#x153;tectonic plates.â&#x20AC;?

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